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Along with the interrelation between medical patent right, the generics impacts and the right to access to medicines, which as one of intersection issues between Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Human Rights (HR), has drawn more and more attention under the international society, the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health has reaffirmed the flexibilities of the Agreement on the Trade R

In this thesis, the production and perception of Swedish word accents by Somali L1 speakers is investigated. The Feature hypothesis, stating that it is easier to acquire a phonological feature in an L2 if the same phonological feature is used in the L1 will be the framework used. Somali is a language that also makes us of word accents. Therefore, the two languages are placed in the same level of t

The purpose of this qualitative study has been to generate understanding about young Indian women’s lives in general and school experiences in particular, with focus on how it has been affected by current marriage traditions. The marriage traditions have been analyzed from a gender perspective, connected to both conceptions of sexuality and impacts of economical factors. The study has been conduct

This essay investigates how Malmö Central Station can be understood in relation to the con-cept of liminality, how it is part of a social and architectural transition between everyday life, in a city, and a travelling state. The concept of liminality is based on Victor W. Turner’s an-thropological theory of transition rites. The essay also investigates how modernity in general and the railway in p

De är många, långt fler än i västländer och en mycket vanlig syn i offentligheten. De är i stort accepterade av samhälle och familj men kämpar ändå mot diskriminering och stigmatisering. De kräver mänskliga rättigheter, värdiga arbeten och ett drägligt vardagsliv. De vill kunna leva med dem de älskar. De är precis som alla andra. Nästan. Följ med på en resa i landet som marknadsförs som ”Amazing T

The aim of this thesis was to synthesize and evaluate an inertial navigation system (INS) for the Combat Vehicle 90 Platform. The INS that was created utilize sensor fusion in order to combine the different signals coming from the vehicle’s multitude of sensors to estimate the vehicle’s position and heading in some known global reference frame. The CV90 standard INS, the NAV90 system, had performe

This thesis is an investigation of the borrowability of cultural vocabulary among languages of different genetic origin in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world. Since cultural vocabulary is more likely to be borrowed compared to other lexical domains, if there has been language contact in this area, this is expected to be reflected in these t

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka ifall lesbiska karaktärer och relationer är marginaliserade inom svensk barn- och ungdomsscenkonst. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med representanter från Stockholms Stadsteater Skärholmen, ung scen/öst, Unga Klara och Backa Teater såväl som case studies synliggörs och analyseras diskursen runt representation av sexuella minoriteter. Även en diskussion kring identitThis essay aims to examine whether lesbian characters and relationships are marginalized in Swedish children- and youth theatre. Through qualitative interviews with representatives from Stockholm Stadsteater Skärholmen, ung scen/öst, Unga Klara and Backa Teater as well as case studies, the goal is not to present statistics but rather to make visible and analyze the discourse surrounding representa

The world market changed quite dramatically when China joined the WTO in 2001 and fully entered the world market. It had implications for both importing and exporting countries, as China’s entrance on the world market increased the supply of cheap manufactured goods. This is thought to have caused US consumers to replace Mexican products with Chinese, and to have slowed down or decreased Mexican e

Spain has in recent years suffered a deep recession with very low growth rates and a growing public debt. The country has in 2012 taken several fiscal measures in order to help overcome its crisis and reduce the public debt. The objective of this study is to analyze some of these changes; tax rises and spending cuts and the increased taxes I have chosen to analyze are the income tax, capital gains

Vattendrag i Sverige har genom tiderna blivit mycket påverkade av jordbruk och andra mänskliga faktorer. Framförallt vattendragen i Skåne är kraftigt påverkade och har varit det under de senaste 150 åren, sedan jordbruket gjordes mer effektivt. Utdikning och uträtning av våra åar har gett jordbruken mer plats och effektiviserat det. Ökningen av jordbrukets avkastning har lett till att våra vattendStreams in Scania are and have been highly affected by the intense agriculture taking place in their surroundings. It is known how nutrients and suspended solids severely affect species living in the streams as well as in the watercourses in southwestern parts of Scania where the water ends up in the end. Streams in Scania have been regulated in many ways to increase the agricultural payoff and th

Vårt sparande har ökat under de senaste åren, likaså efterfrågan på olika sparandealternativ. Det har exempelvis blivit allt vanligare att investera med hänsyn till etiska aspekter. För att undersöka om etiska fonder är ett likvärdigt alternativ till de traditionella fonderna har jag valt att undersöka och jämföra deras prestationer på den amerikanska marknaden utifrån en tio års period. Genom

In the past people sought for information via libraries, travel magazines or were inspired by marketing the travel agency made in order to attract consumers. Before the Internet era one way communication was the right way to follow. Since Internet was developed two ways communication has evolved and people can talk to each other worldwide. The development of the two ways communication has created

Women are less represented on the Swedish scene of popular music than men are. This fact, off course, has many explanations. With case studies among highschool students this essay strive to point out how social practices and structures of power affect girls and boys as subjects exerting music, their approaches and their possibilities and limits of action. The analytical tools are a combination of

Syfte: Syftet är dels att analysera hur Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB:s övervakning av noterade företag står i relation till diskussionen kring överflödiga upplysningar i de finansiella rapporterna. Syftet är även att utifrån empiri analysera hur Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB, revisorer och företag resonerar kring upplysningskraven i IAS 36:134 och vilka konsekvenser resonemangen kan medföra i redovisningen sPurpose: The purpose of this essay is to analyze the Issuer Surveillance Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB’s surveillance of companies, in relation to the discussion on disclosure overload. The purpose is also to analyze how Issuer Surveillance Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB, auditors and companies reason about the disclosures in IAS 36:134 and what consequences this reasoning may have on accounting and stakeholde

Denna uppsats handlar om man med betastrategier och simpel teknisk analys kan skapa sig högre avkastning än index och första AP-fondens svenska aktieportfölj.

In the Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark Dennis R. MacDonald concludes that the author of Mark’s Gospel wrote a story recalling motifs and themes of Homeric epics, and that the Gospel of Mark imitated those epics with regard to characters, plot elements, and even emulated the elements used.The approach of MacDonald is intriguing yet it fails to discuss the consequences of such a relation for th